MONCK HEAD BOAT LAUNCHING
FACILITY
1109. Hon COLIN de GRUSSA to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Transport:
I refer to the Monck Head boat
launching facility opened in 2007 and ongoing issues with sand deposition that
has been attributed to the opening of a rock groyne.
(1) How much
money has the state government spent to date in mitigating sand deposition at
Monck Head?
(2) Has the
minister read the 2009 report titled Implications of the Monck Head boat
launching facility on adjacent intertidal sessile assemblages (Coral Bay, Western
Australia), which highlights these issues?
(3) Has the
minister been briefed on the issues caused by excessive sand deposition at
Monck Head or considered any solutions to
these issues in her capacity as Minister for Planning; and, if yes, what
solutions are being proposed and when will a decision be made?
(4) Will the minister commit to
visiting the site to see the issue firsthand?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(4) The
member is referring to a report released one year into the
eight-and-a-half-year Liberal–National government. From the member's
question, it appears as though no action was undertaken in relation to this
issue by the former government. The Department of Transport has advised that in
2017 it undertook its own shoreline movement study that found accretion at the
facility was not the predominant cause for erosion north of the facility. The
Department of Transport continues to monitor sediment at the location through
periodic surveys.